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Javsacript Graphing Libraries

Interactive Charts & Graphs

Graphs and Charts are a wonderful way to display, explain, understand, and analyze data. They provide not only attractive imagery for your design, but explanations of, at times complicated, information and relationships.

Websites provide the opportunity to create interactive graphs that respond to your users, as opposed to simple image graphs on paper. Here are some JavaScript libraries for creating both traditional line, bar, radar, polar, pie, doughnut, area, and polar area graphs, as well as timelines and node graphs.

A well-explained tutorial, this article details how to make a line chart, a pie chart, and a bar chart with Chart.js. The code is clean and understandable, and the text does a good job of explaining what the code does.

This Chart.js tutorial is detailed and well explained. It shows how to create a doughnut graph, a line graph, and a radar graph, as well as explains a bit about how Chart.js works. This tutorial does a good job of explaining the code used additional to Chart.js, such as defining labels for the doughnut graph.

This relatively straightforward tutorial explains a practical example of how Chart.js can be used. The tutorial, from June 2013, creates a simple graph of website rankings from Alexa. The code is bulky, but it is understandable and builds a useful graph.

Chartist.js is a JavaScript-based graphing library for websites. The library creates graphs real-time on websites with scalable vector graphics (SVG), styles them with CSS including CSS animations and transitions, and gives direct control of the graphs with JavaScript.

Because graphs built by Chartist.js are created using vectors, they are fully responsive to your visitors’ screen sizes and will automatically match your visitors’ screen resolution. Continue reading…

This pages shows live demos for how to create charts with Chartist.js, providing javascript code and brief explanations for the end result. The examples include line charts, scatter charts, area charts, bar charts, and pie charts.

This is the official tutorial for Chartist.js. It explains how to load the library, how to create the HTML structure for graphs and charts in the page, and the javascript for creating charts. The tutorial is easy to follow and quite understandable, with clear explanations for potential developers about how the library works.

This in-depth tutorial demonstrates how to use DC.js to create a web-based dashboard, similar to many intranet sites. Since DC.js is inherently a complex and highly-featured library, the tutorial is long and intricate. However, the tutorial does a great job of explaining how the page in the tutorial is built and what the code does. It shows how to add the code and data, as well as how to customize the appearance of the graphs.

Morris.js is a graphing library designed for creating line graphs, bar graphs, area graphs, and doughnut graphs. It is designed to help you build charts and graphs quickly and efficiently. Morris.js supports both adding data through Google spreadsheets, creating graphs similar in appearance to Google Charts, and directly adding data through JavaScript on your website. Continue reading…

This tutorial shows how to create line charts with Morris.js. The article divides the process into components: first including the dependencies, then the HTML/PHP, next the CSS, then the javascript to create the charts, and finally the JSON-structured data. The tutorial is well structured and the code is briefly explained.

Timeline.js helps you create beautiful, interactive, easy-to-use timelines for your website. This library will help you tell, illustrate, or support stories that are strongly based on time with a series of events.

Timeline.js allows you to easily add information quickly from a number of sources, including tweets from Twitter, videos from YouTube and Vimeo, images from Flickr, maps and location information from Google Maps, and audio from SoundCloud. The library will also help you add text from Wikipedia, as well as information from Vine and Dailymotion. Continue reading…

This introductory tutorial shows how to add and embed a timeline on a webpage with Timeline.js. It briefly explains the directory structure of the Timeline.js library, and how to use it when hosted on your web server.

This tutorial explains in detail how to create a timeline using Timeline.js. Aimed for people creating a timeline for their work or experience, it explains the HTML structure of a page using the library, then details how to customize the timeline’s appearance with CSS.

This in-depth tutorial explains how to set up a timeline with Timeline.js. It briefly explains how to obtain the library and add it to a website, then details step-by-step how to add content to the timeline using JSON-structured data, loaded in-page using javascript.

Vivagraph.js is a graphing JavaScript library designed for building network and node-based graphs. It supports different rendering formats for the graphs, including WebGL, SVG, and CSS-based layouts. This library is designed to support both small graphs with only a few nodes, to large graphs with hundreds or thousands. Continue reading…

These official examples show how to create node graphs with VivaGraph.js. Starting with creating a simple graph, then adding nodes and interactivity, these examples create a helpful starting point for working with Vivagraph.js

This tutorial shows how to create an interactive node-based connection graphs using Vivagraph.js. It combines Vivagraph.js with a number of libraries, creating an interesting search-application. The tutorial is a bit complex and documentation is a bit sparse, but the idea is interesting and creates a useful, practical application.

Parallax Web Design

Parallax website design moves one part of your website at a different speed than the rest of your page. This often creates a 3D-like effect, adding depth and interest to your webpage design. The resources, including themes, tutorials, and examples, are designed to help you build a website with parallax scrolling.

How to build an infinite scrolling website with card design using Masonry, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL.

Website Crawlers

Looking to download a lot of data? Need to find the exact information in a gigantic internet haystack that you are looking for? These resources are designed to help you build spiders, crawlers, and other tools to obtain data from the internet.

Website Theme Resources

Website themes are an easy to create a great website quickly. They provide a beginning point for you to build your websites, giving you layout, code, and functionality to work with. These resources are made to help you find the right theme to help you start building your website.